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Paul,

You can do several things.  You can try their Advanced Client for NetApp
which does the same kind of thing on the NetApp as it does on EMC, HDS, etc..
The licensing is a bit rough though.  In order to perform off host backups or
snapshot backups this way, you need the Advanced Client license plus the NDMP
license as Netbackup uses NDMPv4 to tell the filer to take a snapshot.

If you have the internal resources or money to hire the resources, it isn't that
hard to write a pre/post script to do the same thing.

If you don't want any automation, then you can do the dirt way and just try
to manually marry your NetBackup schedule to your NetApp snapshot schedule for
the particular volume or qtree.

Thanks
Peter DrakeUnderkoffler


Paul Keating wrote:
> Anyone using snapshots on a Netapp to get a "point in time"
>  
> ie, if you want to get a "point in time" backup of say 10am on a Monday
> morning......rather than backing up directly to tape, over however long
> that takes, do you take a snapshot of the volume using the Netapp tools,
> then use netbackup to backup the snapshot data to tape?
>  
> is this possible? feasible?
>  
> I haven't found much about it.....looking up "backup snapshot netapp"
> doesn't turn up many hits outside of describing what snapshot backups do.
>  
> Paul

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